WaveNet machine learning launched in Google Assistance

Posted By : Vidushi Vij | 11-Oct-2017

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A few years back Google acquired DeepMind. Back then, no one was sure what will happen. Now it is a part of all the and two-second machine learning problems such as, how to beat humans at Go, improving AI problem solving, and making computer-generated speech more realistic. Last year, Google introduced machine learning-based text-to-speech (TTS) system called WaveNet which is a new form of generating speech.

 

 

It does not include the whole lot of words instead it generates voice by using real human speech and model it into waveforms on its basis. Though waveforms are less convincing than the human speech English and mandarin people found it much better than the text-to-speech programs. For Computing purpose the text to speech programs are extremely important and people are using it in Amazon Alexa, Google assistant, Siri, and Cortona. The voice assistance part of Google home speakers along with the phones which means you can control devices at home through voice assistant.


 

The idea behind the launch of Waveform was to recreate sentences and phrases by letting machine learning to observe the speech patterns and no using actual words. It does not focus on certain parameters however, it focuses on the large set of human speech to create human-like speech. This method is known as concatenative text to speech. The ending voice which is generated through WaveNet is much better than the traditional system used. When the WaveNet was launched, it was very expensive and it was computationally extensive. it used to take a second to generate 0.02 second of sound as the speech patterns are generated sample by sample.

 

 

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The google launched the improved version in both English and Japanese voices.

The latest and the upgraded WaveNet is capable of generating sound at 20x which means, generating the two second clip in just a tenth of second. To experience the new assistance you have to go to preferences under settings section and then click on the Assistant voice option.  
 

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